V5 One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest Lesson 1

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 2,3

Welcome! Phones in your bag, bag at the back of the classroom, laptop on the table. 

Program

- Reading

- Book: background + author

- Spark Notes

- Prepare for tomorrow?

- Reflection/Evaluation

- Homework

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

Let's check a few things

Did you get to finish reading the book?

1. Yes
2. No

The Beat Generation

• Social movement in the 50s-60s. 
•  They were against conformity & American consumerism 
• Expression through art: music, literature, poetry & painting.
• Experimented with spirituality & drugs: LSD!
• The name: deregatory, to insult
• Notable figures: Ken Kesey, Andy Warhol, The Beatles, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X.

Who is the author behind this book?

Ken Kesey

• September 17th, 1935 - November 10th, 2001.
  
• considered himself the connection between the beat generation and the hippies.
  
• Wrote One Flew in 1960, which was published in 1962.
  
• His income between writing and publishing: governmental studies involving hallucinogenic drugs 

Why did he write the book?

• Inspiration: while working the night shift in a veterans' hospital.
  
• often spent time talking to the patients, sometimes under the influence of the hallucinogenic drugs he had volunteered to experiment with.
  
• Kesey did not believe that these patients were insane, but rather that society had pushed them out because they did not fit the conventional ideas of how people were supposed to act and behave.
• MK-ULTRA

Have you ever heard of the term "MK-ULTRA"?
If yes, could you explain in your own words what that is?
If no, could you look it up and try to describe it in your own words?

Merry Pranksters

• Merry Pranksters: name of the group
• Roadtrips across country in a school bus named 'the Furthur'
• After bus trip, so called 'Acid Tests'
• San Francisco, Bay Area 1965-1966. 
• Came into contact a lot with the law. 

Sparknotes

https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/cuckoo/

Homework: 

- Read the descriptions about the characters before the next lesson. Use the link to SparkNotes (will be in Magister).

- What do you think recurring themes are? 

- Is there any symbolism in the book? 

- Is something unclear/do you have questions?

Reflection/Evaluation

At the end of this lesson...

- I can talk about the author of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. 

Homework

Bring your WaspReporter with you to class

& your copy of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest.

The novel's characters